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Well, we're talking about something near and dear to my heart that I've talked about on stage in front of thousands of people, and that is the fact that I not always, but I mostly try to sit down when I go peepy.
H I do too, I'm a sitzpinkler.
Oh do you just started doing that?
Yeah? I think I confessed along with you on stage in Seattle too, if I remember correctly, But yeah, yeah, no, I totally now I own it. At the time, I was a little wary. Now I'm like, yeah, I sit down to pee. It works really well. The only time I don't is in public because I would rather cut off the lower half of my body than ever sit on a public toilet seat.
Yeah. And if I remember correctly, my on stage joke was that I sit to p but I stand up when I poop.
That's right, that was a classic. Yeah.
I've been doing that though for I feel like it's semi knew, like in the past, like six or seven years. I started seeing down to pe and the first uh, you know, adult male that I saw doing this was was my brother in law when your brother in law. Yeah, my brother in law when I lived with them, my sister's husband, Carston, who is German.
Oh that makes sense because this is a very German thing. Like there's even know that I didn't either. I think. Actually you me found this one because we were talking about I don't remember what we were talking about. We looked it up and it turned out that this is a big thing in Germany and they have a word for it, sits pinkler. Can you say it was a German accent? Yeah, Hasselhoff, he does.
Uh No, you said it right, basically since sitzpink.
Yeah, yeah, there you go. That's what I was looking for.
You just got to add a little flare.
It makes sense too that the Germans would have a word for it, because the Germans have a word for everything. But the reason why a little bell went off in my head when you said your brother in law is German is because it's a big deal in Germany. As a matter of fact, there was a yu Goov Pole of eight Western European countries plus the US, Canada, Mexico, Australia and Singapore, and the whole point of this pole was to find out where where men sit down to
pee the most. It was groundbreaking scientific pole.
And Germany went out. I didn't quite get this because it says sixty two percent of German Men sit every time.
Nope, a combined sixty two every time or most times.
Oh, okay, every time being for most times. I got you.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, So I mean for the that means that for the most part, by far, most German Men are you'll find them sitting down when they're peeing most of the time.
Yeah. And behind them was Sweden at fifty percent, Denmark forty four, Australia, which kind of surprised me at thirty nine. I thought they would be pretty low on the list. Yeah, but the US, Mexico, Britain, and Singapore rounded out between twenty and twenty four percent.
Yeah, which all of that's a little surprising. I thought Singapore would be up there with you. I thought Australia would be down there because they're so rough and tumble.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's such a sexister misogynistic. I don't know what it is exactly, but it's just a really kind of wrong thing to assume, like, oh, yeah, Australians are rough and tumble, they ride kangaroos around and drink like fifty five gallon drums of fosters, right and eat it out back every night. But if so, of course they don't sit down to peak. And that's kind of like this idea behind the six pinkler thing, like it's used in Germany,
or it used to be used as an insult. Yeah, like you're a sixth pinkler, you're kind of you're a feminine, you're kind of a woos You're just not a manly man. And somehow, some way, German society said, nine, we're taking that and we're going to own it, and we're going to turn it on its head, and we're going to start a campaign starting around two thousand and four to basically train German Men to sit down to pee.
Yeah, I love it. They even have this, This is incredible, a device sort of like a what do you call the things a duvet, A duvet, a bidet, You want to make.
Those up, Spread a duvet over your toilet and then just p all of.
Nothing would splash, sort of like a bidet. You know, some bidets talk to you, I know in Japan and Germany has kind of gotten on that with their WC geist or toilet ghost or schbook sp uk, which is spook which is a person recording a person who has recorded a message that says things like excuse me, except in German there's a penalty for peeing while standing in this house. You better not risk any problems and sit down.
Yeah, so if you lift the toilet, it triggers that voice.
I kind of like that.
Yeah, sometimes they'll be recorded in the voice of a famous German chancellor. Sometimes it's just like a lion's roar. But I mean, that's how invested in getting men to sit down to pee they are in Germany, Like they really take it seriously. And there's another country that takes it at least as seriously, and that's Japan. Yeah, And what I found very interesting is that Japan. I said that Germany like really started this drive to get men to sit down to pee, to turn men into sit
spinklers in like two thousand and four. The same thing happened in Japan back in around two thousand. In fact, there was a survey in nineteen ninety nine only fifteen percent of Japanese men sat down to pe, but by twenty twenty it was up to sixty percent. So something really radical happened here on planet Earth in the early two thousands that just turned everything on its head, yeah, or put everything on its bottom, right.
And I guess we'll come back and talk a little bit about some of the reasons why that might happened.
Right for this indubitably.
So one thing I thought was, you know, since it really increased a lot over the past like twenty years or so, I thought there may have been something I missed, like, you know, Captain America sat to pee in a Marvel movie or something like that, But I couldn't find anything.
I think it's just literally people men realizing that it's a lot more hygienic to sit down and you risk a lot less almost down to zero basically if you're doing it right, that there's going to be pee elsewhere that's not in the toilet.
Yeah. I think men finally started listening to women when they're like, this is so gross. Why do you do this? Get out of the house forever? Yeah, because it is so there's a I mean, when you sit down to pee, your chance of getting pee anywhere but in the toilet is almost zero. You're doing something really wrong if you're sitting down to pee and pea spraying everywhere. But there might be a duvet stuffed in the toilet right as
a matter of fact, you might want to check that. God, but if you stand up to pee, the chances are essentially one hundred percent that you're going to get pee splattered somewhere some way. Sometimes this is a terrible thing to say, but it's true. Some men just miss entirely and they'll pee like basically behind the toilet. They'll get
it in front of the toilet on the sides. There's a whole thing that every man listening knows about where there's a lot of opportunity to get pete outside of the toilet bowl when you pee standing up.
Yeah, and you know, I was going to say not to get too gross, but I guess we're kind of there already. Yeah, you know, people get distracted, especially in the age. You know, I've seen plenty of grown men on their smartphone like at a urinal urinals by the way, or it's a whole different horror show that we want to even get into, because there's no way that p isn't going places even if you're properly peeing in a urinal.
But I've seen guys on their phone, like you get distracted and all of a sudden, like you look down, you're like, that's not going where I thought it was going. Yeah, not for thirty seconds, but like you know, all it takes is as a second of a peepee stream and you've got a real mess on your hands.
Yeah, And I think the thing that really is the judge of character is whether you correct your course once you realize if you just keep peeing off to the side of the urinal, no, you're a bad person.
Well, bring Young University. They study fluid dynamics there in their physics department, and they actually did studies on urine back spray when you're standing up. And like I said, even if you're doing it perfectly right, there's probably going to be some kind of spray that's going somewhere outside the toilet, even if it's just on the rim of the toilet.
Yes, yes, because there's a lot of factors contributing to that that combined to basically say you peace standing up piece going somewhere outside of the toilet. One is that when the urine stream exits the penis towards the toilet powl. There's a whole period where it's not it's just flying through the air. Yeah, And for about the first six inches after exits said penis, it's held together in a stream.
Everything's going really well. And then after about six inches past the exit, it enters what's called the plateau Rayleigh in stability. It's a fluid dynamic phenomenon where a stream of fluid eventually breaks up as gravity starts to pull it apart, and it breaks up into droplets, and each one of those droplets can hit that toilet bowl and spray everywhere.
Yeah, you nailed it. Porcelain is also a problem because if you have a porcelain toilet, which you know chances are you probably do, porcelain is hydrophilic, which means it really loves fluid, so it loves to splait it all over itself. Basically, it's a very splatty surface that you're peeing on. To be honest, I might be on something with the duvet thing.
Yeah, I think you find. One of the other things that people who are like, yes, be a sitzpinkler are all about is emptying the bladder. It's a big deal to empty your bladder. It's not just for the forty plus crowd, even though it really is. But you really want to make sure you get all the p out of your bladder whenever you peet.
Reason why everyone, though, does anyone key to eighty percent and be like that feels good enough?
Well, no, there's just off you can you can run into situations where you're like, you can't like all you get.
Out, yeah, or you're interrupted Yeah okay.
Right, but I mean even if you're not like that could be all that Like you can't get one hundred percent out. So sometimes when you're like.
No, that's I get you.
I think it has to do with prostate. But so people like sit down to pee. But this is a very fraught debate because medical researchers tend to say if you're a man standing up to p or sitting down to pe, depending on your condition, depending on how healthy you are and how healthy your prostate is, it's not going to make any difference whatsoever. One way might help one guy, the other way might help another guy. So that's really not a very good argument for getting people to sit down to pee.
Yeah, So I get all that now because I, in fact myself since we're being honest, since this is just you and me talking to no one else's listening. Sure have have reached that age where there's like some prostate things where peeing, you know, all of a sudden, you wake up one day in your fifties and you go to p and you're like, huh, nothing's happening, right, So it's just going leg. Yeah, So you call your doctor
and they're like, oh, well, that's just what happens. You start to have some like little prostate issues and nothing like super serious usually but no.
But that's such a double edged sword. Like on the one hand, you're like, oh, I'm so relieved this is in a terrible medical condition. On the other hand, what they're saying is like, get used to it, buddy, Yeah, this is just what your body's doing from now on.
Yeah, exactly. Women, on the other hand, it's a different story. They don't have the bladder, you know, when you stand up to pee, which you know, supposedly I don't think supposedly standing up to pe does help a man empty their bladder more fully, but the prostate is supporting us, is supporting that bladder. Women don't have the prostate. So if a woman is forced a piece on the side of the road behind the concert venue, at the campground, in the shower. They're all manner of reasons why a
woman may have to go peepee standing up. They don't have that prostate supporting them, so it's much more difficult for them to empty their full contents.
Yeah. Yeah. The thing is is so if they sit down to pee, they're much more prone to empty their bladder. Ipso facto, everybody should sit down to pee. The problem is when you again, when you get into public and you hover above the toilet seat to pee, that actually has a similar problem as when you're standing up to pee. But really, if that's your choice, I feel like in that situation, just go with the not getting one hundred percent of your pee out right then.
Yeah, And the one last thing I want to say is I get that a lot of men probably don't sit down to pea still, the statistics tell me that at least, but in the middle of the night, if you have to get up and go, I just think it's the craziest thing I've ever heard of to try and stand there and still try and stay asleep and pee in that toilet. That's how that was The gateway for me was in the middle of the night because it just makes sense.
Well, I remember the first time that happened to me. I accidentally fell onto the toilet while I was peeing into a sitting position, and I was like, oh, this is much nicer.
I love it.
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